Comments on: Training a Tree Wisteria https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/ Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:18:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: santa rosa tree care https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3255 Sat, 07 May 2016 12:23:57 +0000 #comment-3255 We had a wisteria plant at one of our office and we had followed the steps given in the following link for training the wisteria tree. And the results were quite good from our expectations.

Steps Followed as mentioned in the link:
homeguides.sfgate.com/train-wisteria-tree-48706.html

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3254 Sun, 04 Aug 2013 08:34:18 +0000 #comment-3254 In reply to Anonymous.

Hi Tracey I have just bought lots of the African wisteria tree SEEDS . I would love to know how to plant this and to know if it is rampant .Thanks Norma

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3253 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:21:59 +0000 #comment-3253 Tree wisteria is a plant in it's own right – not just a standard-trained wisteria vine. It is a native of south africa and (sadly) is not as spectacular as the vine, when grown here anyway. Still a nice attractive small tree though and drought and frost (up to a point)resistant once established.

]]> By: Kaveh Maguire https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3252 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:09:51 +0000 #comment-3252 I did visit a garden in Japan, I think it might have been in Kyoto, that had nothing but Wisteria. There must have been over a hundred of them. Sadly they were just in bud because we were there during cherry blossom time.

It was a little crazy. Like the garden of a Wisteria hoarder.

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3251 Wed, 09 May 2012 07:52:35 +0000 #comment-3251 Tracey, thanks. Did you see my post on the Smith Bulb show? So here's a deal….I can hook you up with some P. sieboldii for a cutting or some seed from one of your white-berried ardisia!

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3250 Wed, 09 May 2012 07:51:22 +0000 #comment-3250 Kaveh – I know exactly what you mean. Some of our wisteria that are seed raised, from local plants growing in gardens near us, are extremely aggressive, and I am still pulling runners up. Some are 15 feet long!.

If one can get names cultivars from Japan, such as this grafted wisteria, there are no runners at all.

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3249 Tue, 08 May 2012 22:31:23 +0000 #comment-3249 Hi, Matt, just found your blog. I also have trained a tree wisteria and it was fabulous this spring due in part, perhaps, to our mild winter here in western Mass. It stands about six feet tall and had over 100 racemes last week. I work as the chief gardener for the Smith College Botanic Garden in Northampton and have many plant obsessions of my own. Spring ephemerals are one, especially forms of Anemone nemerosa. I also grow many tree peonies from seed, and am interested in Primula sieboldii cultivars. Do you know of a good source for the latter?
Keep up the excellent blog!
Your,
Tracey

]]> By: Kaveh Maguire https://gardern.co.za/2012/05/training-tree-wisteria/#comment-3248 Tue, 08 May 2012 08:42:47 +0000 #comment-3248 Tried it because NJ Botanical Gardens at Skylands has such great Wisteria but it is so much work for such a short period of bloom in the north east. We had one growing about 40 feet up into an oak and then it sent runners creeping 60 feet clear across the yard and we decided the entire thing had to come out.

I've decided to appreciate the ones in England that bloom so pristinely before they leaf out. I have noticed one here a few blocks away from me and it seems that on the coast they bloom for quite a long time but I think my Wisteria days are over.

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